Girl in Translation Paperback - 2011
by Kwok, Jean
- Used
A fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice makes a dazzling fiction debut ("Marie Claire") with this novel--a national bestseller--about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two cultures.
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Details
- Title Girl in Translation
- Author Kwok, Jean
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2011-05-03
- Bookseller's Inventory # BOS-N-04e-01316
- ISBN 9781594485152 / 1594485151
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.1 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 12.95 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 840
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Bildungsromans
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.
Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic American immigrant novel—a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.
